The Sun. — London, England, 1810-08-14 00:00:00

4):1t '<tog, t f l►titlgit the vr:a iiott such . ait ihcreased deinand may recently have essted in greater force than at former periods,. et in the former wars' and convulsions of the. Continent, they must have eXisted in'such a degree as to produce. some effect. Sir I.raricis Baring has very justly re ferted to the seven years war and to the American war, and remarks, that no want of Bull , on was then felt in this country. - And upon referring for a cotirse of years to the - tables which are published for the use of the merchants, such as Lloyd's Liqs, and Wettenhall's Course of Exchange, your Committee have found that,from the middle of the. year 1773, when the refortnatior of the gold coin took place, till about the middle c: the year 1799, two years af ter the suspension of the cash payMents of the-Bank, the market price of standard gold in bin remained • steadily uniform at the price.of 3k 17s. 6d, (being, with the small allowance for loss by detention at the Mint, equal to the Mint' price of 31. 17s, 10.) with the exception of one year, from May 1783 to May 1.784; when it was occasionally 31. 18s. _During the same period it is to be noticed, the price of Por tugal gold coin was occasionally .as high as 41. 2s. ;, and your Committee also observe, that it was stated to the Lords' Committee in 1797 by Mr. Abraham Newland, that the Bank had been frequently obliged to buy , gold higher than the Mint price, and upon one particular occasion gave as much for a small quantity, which their agent 'procured from Portugal, as 41. Bs. But your Committee find, that the price of standard gold in bars was never for any length of time materially.above the Mint price, during the whole period of 24 years wnich elapsed from the re formation of: the gold coin to the suspension of the cash 'payment of the, Bank. The two most rerna. k able periods prior to the present, when the market price of gold in this country has exceeded our Mint price, were in the reign of King William, when the silver coin was very much worn below its standard, and in the early patt . of his present Majesty's reign, when the gold coin was very much worn below its standard. In both' those periods, .the excess of the market price of gold above its Mint price,was found to be owing to the bad .state of the currency ; and in-, both instances, the reformation of the currency et . , feEtually lowered the market price of gold to the level of the Mint , -price. DUring the whole of the years 1796 and 1797, in which .there was such a scacity of gold occasioned by the great demands of the country Bankers in order increase their deposits,, the market pric,e of gold never .rose above the Mint price. wiur [To be continued.] MALLS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, Watertord. - bus--; Cadiz. piticE 01 sTocics THIS DAY AT TWILV F., O'CLOCK. Consols - 68 Red. Ann. 6g I THE S U N. SOLENI QUIS AI SUM AUDEAT? LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1510. -A report was, circulated yesterday, that the Car teret packet , had brought intelligence of MURAT having been defeated in an attempt to invade Sicily, ,with the loss of between three and four thousand men. We should be very hippy- to Confirm this agreeable intelligence, but it is our duty to state that it is withotit foundation. We yesterday com municated to our readers, from the best authority, the news brought by that packet. ' • From the last accounts of our Squadron employed on the coast of Calabria, which go up to the 23d . • ,June, we had been invariably successful in taking or, destroying all the armed vessels or gun-boats of the enemy that our flotilla engaged, or were able to come up with. All Mint AT'S great naval viBories con sisted in the desertion of a Sicilian gun-boat. to the enemy. . . • The DRY of ALotEßs•declared war against France on the 29th May' last. The French have evacuated, the island of .Fantl, t o the:northward of Corfui which has been taken •possession of by Capt. GIIFFITHS,. of the Leonidas. On the .eoih June, a detathment of seamen and marines, ' belonging- to the Alceste and Topaze, .brought out and destrOyed seven vessels of the 'enemy from the Bay of Martino, IA .the Island of Corsica, after driving the enemy frcm two strong torts, burning the inagaiinet and spiking the guns. tlu the performance of, this service, one men was killed, and two wounded. Last night . . we received Spanish Papers to the 2.601 tilt. We are happy to find that , the Spaniards persevere- in their 'plan of avoiding general aelions, and of harassing the French by innumerable small patties. Even .in the Province of Biscay, which we 'might naturally suppose to be most completely in the power of the French, the Patriots are incessantly intercepting their dispatches, seizing their convoys, and cqtting off their small parties. Nothing at any, importance has occurred at Cadiz. Sunday evening their MAJESTIES, Princesses, AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, MARY, and SOPHIA, walked . on Windsor Terrace till half past eight o'clock.— Their MAJESTIES and the Royal Party were ac companied by the Mafquis CORNWAi.Lis an d family, Earl COLLYER, Count MUNSTER, Gen. WYNYARD,:, MeSsrs. PERCEVAL, RYDER, and a very crowded and genti•el assoublage ot Nobility and Gentry of the environs of Winthor, &c. During the time, the bandi ot the Royal Horse Guatds (Shies), and Staf ford - Militia, played set 'cial martial pieces. ay morning Priacesses 4usJ.A and SOPHta, 'took' an airing on horseback in -Windsor Park. They were attended by 'Lords WALSINGHANI, ST. HELP.NS HAIIROWEY, and AR DEN Yesterd, The K.te , :d comes to London to-morrov‘ , , to hold a private Levee at the'Queen's' PAlate. - The Coil: Papers state, ,that Mr. O'Suu.LVA - 4, 'whose name has frequently been mentinned_ in the PUblic Papers of late,. has become a Bankrupt. 1t is stated that his Creditors in general were.disposed to permit him to continue his. business. There were some hower.tr who would not consent, and the con sequence was,, that a Commission was taken out, against hint. In the hope that tre should be per mitted to, carry on his business, he had, - applied to GoVernincut forfora Loan'of 25,0001. and obtained a promise of that - sum ; but when the docket was struck against-him, he wrote the following Lenox to. , Mr. NV. POLE :••••• '" SI R, • 41 You will please on behalf of myself and the people in my employment, to return our'sincere 4 thanks to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, for his hum inity in paying the imme. diate attention he has done to the Petition laid before him, and for the readiness with which relief was offered me, to re tain them in employment. ' 6 It is with the most poignant regret, I have to acquaint his Grace, that since my return from Dublin, occurrences have taken place, which will' prevent me from accepting the intended aid; but, that every effort will be- used by my friends to alleviate the distress of the people in my, employ, as far as existing circumstances will almit. " You will also please to accept my most grateful ac knowledgments for the evident anxiety you so fully evinced, to afford me 41 the relief I required, in the interviews which I have had the honour to have with you. 41 I have the honour to be, Sir. " Your obedient humble Servint, 4 ! J. B. O'SULLIVAN." 4 ! Cork, 4th August, tStol" The young Prince of ORANGE is making a tour of the North. On Wednesday last he left Edinburgh, and will return to town the latter end of. next month. Yesterday being the natal day of the Heir Ap parent, the same was - celebrated with the usual de . monstrations of joy. The trades-people of his Royal Highness manifested their loyalty and grati tude in the most zealous twinner. About 80 per sons partook of a sumptuOus dinner at the Thatched House Tavern. The Prince sent 'them, as usual, two fat bucks. In the evening' , the illuminations were very brilliant. The Yellow . Fever Remedy Warehouse, at Char ing-cross, was very beautifully illuminated. Letters and Papers have beenreceived from New York to the lath, from Boston to the -I Rh, and frorri Philadelphia to the 1 t7th ult. A gentleman who arrived passenger in one of the latest vessels, says, that the general opinion in, the. United States was, that the Executive Authorities would not sum mon Congress before the usual period, and that there was no expeetat ion that war would be declared either • against Great Britain or France, but it was supposed • that some restrialive measures with regard to com merce would be resorted to. • In an article from Boston of the 13th July, we find a letter from the Havannah, mentioning, that the reduetion of the duties had been attended with the most beneficial conseldences to thrt Settlement. . On Friday the 50th infantry marched into Lewes, from Silver Hill barracks, under 'the command of Colonel WALKER . , for the purpose of ass i sting at the grand review which was to take place yesterday ; and on Saturday the -32 d and 36th infantry, and Bedfordshire Regiment olMilitia, took their ground of encampment it Spital Hal, near Lewes s and on Sunday afternoon Major-General BaowN inspected, and - praaised in the tiring motions these four Regi ments which were brigaded together, and which Major-General BROWN Was yesterday to command. Lieutenant-Colonel HULL, who gallantly fell in the late battle of Almeida, wasl a telative4of J. W, Holz, Esq. 'of-Great Baddow, in Essex, and Cap tain HULL, who was so severely wounded, is a son of that Gentle Man. Yesterday the 4th battalion of the Royals arrived at Tilbury Fort, from whence they are to embark for Scotland. Capt.- J. W. AlAtm= has been appointed Go= vernOr of the Island of Anholt, in the Cattegatt. The Alicant Paper contains an article corrobora tive of the account of the destrutilion of MuRAT's flotilla; but still uo official confirmation of the event has yet reached England. The intelligence is thus communicated in the Spanish Journal : " ALICANT, JULY 17. The Consul of his Sicilian Majesty in this City has just received from Mahon the following important information : • The Sicilian pOlacre of war the Queen Char. lotie is just'arrived here from Rilerino. She has on board dispatches for his Royal Higliness the Duke of Orle.ins, and is immediately to proceed to Cadiz. The Capta n states, that on the day he left Palermo, an official account had attived of the combined Eng lish and . Sicilian squadrons having defeated and com pletely destroyed a flotilla of gun-boats, which the_ enemy had just formed ,in Calabria,* for the purpose of effeding a landing in Sicily. 4! 44 The labour of two years has been riemolished in one day. —This will be the result of all Buonaparte's projects." A Court-martial was to be held on the 19th of June, 'on board the centaur, off,Tuulon, on two seamen belonging. to the Success frigate, who had been taken in an enemy's prit weer. The Contest gun-brig, Lieutenant JOHN GREGORY, which sailed with dispatches for America in August last, is believed to have foundered• off the Azores, and that all the crew perished. • • On. Sunday se'nnight during the' performance of Divine Service, Abercarne chapel, near Newport, IVionmouthshirc, was struck by lightning. The alarm that prev3i!ed among the congregation way be more easily conceived-than described; hut we are happy to say, that none present sustained 'any material injury. To-day the LORD-MAYOR, after inspening the returns of the Mealwei , hers P was under the neces sity* of ordering the price of Bread to be raised Id. per peck. Thc qusrtern loaf till then'-hoe Is, §ld. N A WEL - N PORTSMOUTH, AUG. i3.--Arrived 'the Naiad, of 36 guns, Capt. HILL, from a cruize off - Cherbourg ; and Rifleman, of f 8 guns, Capt. A. INN 23, « ith a cotivoy e from Guernsey. ' Sailed the Aymphe, of 36 guns, Capt. Ci_AY, and Guadaloupe, of 18 guns, Capt. HEAD, for the Downs ; also the Tyriwz,'ot 18 guns, Capi. DAVIES, on a cruize. YARMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Sailed for the Baltic the Calliope, Lynx, and Fancy. Remain in the Roads the Roebuck and two gun . brigs, the Berkshire Militia will march in a few days for Stilam, add will be replaced by the Wiltshire. DEAL, Au0.,13.---Wind W. blows strong'; in consequence of which his Majesty's ships, and seve ral of the merchantmen, have struck their top-gal lant yards and masts. Four o'clock, P. M.—Wind W, and moderate, The whole of the ships ride " all well." The Rosetti, SCARTH, from Sr . . Vincent's, is stranded on the Spit, in the Bristol Channel, and deserted by the crew. The Betsey, WEDGE, from Martinique for Lon don, started - a plank at sea, and was•abandoned by the crew. The Hope, BUTLER, and the Icarro, Smirn, have been re-taken and carried into Malta. • Admiral FREENANTLE is to hoist his flag in the Mediterranean. We have been favonred with the folloping ex tracts of letters from Malta and Gibraltar. They contain• every event of any i m p or t ance that had oc curred .or was known at e ith er o f these placesso :— MALTA, JUNE 20.—We look for the packet from England with- great anxiety. No convoy homeward is yet appointed here. It will, •per haps, he named before the close of next mouth., • " The fears in Sicily, respecting an attack from . the enemy, are greatly subsided. A strong rein forcement to the naval ,force, and the additional 4,000 troops brought in, the Ganymede's Convoy, have placed that Island, in a state of security. The French. boats are destroyed daily. The Salsette fri gate is expected from the Dardanelles with Mr. ADAIR, on leave of absence. She was to sail about the end of (his month. She will proceed to Eng land without waiting for convoy. The Exchange combines very high to-day." - "GIBRALTAR, JULY 24.—The Black Joke cut ter was taken in a calm by tw o large privateers, and carried into Algiers. She was charged with dis patches from Constantindple and Malta, as well as with overland dispalChes from India,, There are twenty-four privateers of the same description, mostly commanded' by worthless, Genoese, which cruise between Oran and Bona. They have taken the Fingal, a line vessel, which sailed from hence about three weeks ago. A beautiful American brig, the Amphitrite, which left .here about the same time, has shared the same We; also many others. " The Prince Ernest packet is considered in'great peril; she will be an excellent prize f or their, if they fall in with her, having an immense quantiiy of dollars on board. The Comes is arrived from Al giers, with the Portuguese Admiral SCARNICHIA OR board. He has ptirchased a peace with the lley,in behalf of the Portuguese, for two years, for which he is to pay 900,000 dollars. He proceeds from hence to Lisbon, in the Comns, for the money; as it is to be paid immediately. •Mr. CASSAMAJOR, who accompanied the Portuguese Admiral to Algiers, is also arrived here, and,' believe, will proceed with him to Lisbon." Letters from Tarragona, dated July 1, speak with perfect confidence as to thei . r , means of resisting any attack on the part of the French. It was computed that it would require between thirty and forty thou sand men to invest and lay regular siege to that place ; and the numbers of the enemy in . that and the adjoining provinces were not supposed to excred 15,000 men. The fortifications of Tarragona tiqcl been much improved and enlarged. , Extra, of a letter from an officer on board Sir S. HOOD'S flag-ship cruizing off Toulon .Certaur, luue is,. " We are still cruizing in the old way ; the one my muster about 14 sail ot, the line, and 8 or 10 frigates; four of the ships are large three deckers, but they do not appear inclined to come out. I see by the newspapers there have been reports of an fiction, but that does not appear likely to hap pen. We closely blockade them. W 4 are in gene-. ral about t t sail of the line, with only two three deckers, the San Josef and Ville de •Paris. The Ira al Sovereign is gone to •Gibraltar. The In vincible joined as yesterday ; she has been to Car iliagena and Tarragona,...fating out Spaniards ; one line of battle ship and three frigate, she got to Ma holl.—For our part, we do not expect to be in any port before November ; nor eoes the San Josef, Tigre, or Warspite others go into Mahon in tutus, We have two transports bow in company, one with water, and the other with provisions we get very little fresh beef, but Sir CHARLES is going to send frequently to 11.1rbary for bullocks. 'We keep pro. vilions complete for five months, to be ready in case . the enemy start—we all wish they would. This ship must lay alongside a tinge decker, I suppOse, which would be sharp work; but our broadside.is' heavier than many • three-deckers, as we have.no . guns but 31 - e and 24-pounders, and in all 84, there tore we should do. execution. We ate.to have a Court Martial here td-morrow, on two men from the Success, who were taken in an enemy's pri- Vateer." A bullock broke from hi s d rove in Lang-lane, Smith yeskrday morning, and ran furiously along several streets, till he cauie to Ray-street, Clerken well, where he tossed tour barrows, and ma teriilly hurt a poor woman, who was taken to the. hospital in a dangerous way : the animal was, with much difficulty,- secured. • liu!! is an honest enemy. —Why ? Beca,,ise h e aanrot keep his own secret. Yes! yes; John Bull's - an honest foe, For, whether wrong or right, He's sure td let his Rival know When, lvbere, and bow, he'll fight. Not so the shrewd insidiOui Who keeps half Europe trembling . ; He steals upon you like a thief, And conquers by dissembling. Yet even be might cease tO roam, _ _ Like Heav'n's avenging rod, If half the cunning us'd at home, Were only us'd abroad. For what is war, but force and art, . ; With policy combin'd Where courage ads the body's part, And judgment guides the mind. C. I THE '±HCATRE.-- 7 41r, C. KEMBLI3 last night 35" sumed the very arduous part of Hamlet, at the ki market Theatre. He pet tortnd it, we urbeve, before at Covent.-Garden Tneatre, riite,f onne Brighton, so that he has had the , advantat;e of s experience in the part. Mr. J. KEMBLE his br so often seen in this part, and 'ets oe, n so m u c h mired in it, that his representation of it st!eini considered as the standard mode. It trial, ever, be said that Mr. C. KEMBLE c±id not play v.— . servile imitation, nor did he manifest ally affecteLl novelty. His performance in general.% as marlicci by good sense, spirit, and feeling, except that s , ' thought he was at times somewhat too violent for the philosophic Prince, 'oppressed as he is su pp o ‘ed to be,,.by the .degradat on ot his mother, and 11 '" murder of a beloVed and estimable father lie'. received throughout with very great apdlause, awl he has certainly added, cm ths occasion, in no silo!! degree, to his professioualcredit. . LY CEulll.—The story of Jack the Giant killer, 3 subject which has so long afforded wonder and de light to the infant world, and - , hick will doublle" remain a source of high gratificmon in the sffin' quarter, was last night brought inrward!in a dramatic Shape . at this place. It c.to hardly, he supposed 11 ,1 t we should enter into a f orma l cr i t i c i sm of Suc h a performance ; it is sufficient to say, that the 51 ,13. , Jest has perhaps b een . d ramat i ze d with all the sloii Of which it was susceptible. Toe scenery was tied, picturesque, and beautiful. The dancing Ns' 33 'excellent. Master IV ens, a brother of Mrs. 0110 0 . : was the hide h e ro o f the piece, and h e d ts ploye'• much ability consideri ng his years, Mr. BRADLIUSY, who possesses high; pantomitnical repute, made liis first appearance at . this place, and performed the part ot. the . C/owts with great effett. Monsieur ROBRRT WAS the Giant, and he rendered the par t sufficiently terrible.—The piece did not pass with' out opposition, but when : properly retrenched, ' r will probably become a favourite, -at least with 1 0 rising generation. The Edinburgh Theatre cicsed for the season (4/ Monday last. • It re-opens in November. The French Officer, whose arrival in this country we noticed on Thursday last, is as fine as the flint man of a new Sheriff. He is covered with g t) . i i , lace, and judging from this, specine,,n of the Frev‘c army, the expellee attending Vie dress a l on e, of 01 ' officers, • must be.enormOus.. But ihi4 sple ,, ,did at tire, however burthensolue to the people of Frouc ° l . , is flattei iog to their vanity,, and "however (ft:alb: l6 may be their title to the name of. the great naia l ' 7 ' there can be no question about their finery. Extra[ of a letter from Portugal Brt: s 1) head 7 quarters, July 27 :—Our two late hiUSlies-w' the enemy have only ' s e r v e d to make cur brave ln d , anxious to grapple closely with them. From P r i l t soners, and indeed from quarters, we k now 111. , they have a great rts;:eet fur the English ara , t ,to Massena is maniruvring around us in prodl. l- force, and in all directions ; and no doubt the .Fre; )c v are in earnest for the in vas i on of Portugal. I L ' e '„ are quiet at this momen t , b ut i t i s the calm bcf:r. a storm, which is g at h er i n g• f rom every ciu3'l"lo Still we do not despair, nor is there any thing It despondency to be discovered in the British 00 . 1) i:- though there are cr oa k ers , an d not a few, who to get home„ but who, perhaps, would be die tented in any quarter. Our gallant leaders r0' 4 ,`:,1 the hearts .o the army, and' the most uobo:lntl, e; confidence. Our Commissariat is truly respeOa t ' i . this is a school for Commissaries, and the L;t o °`, ) „ .t , ,are kept to their duty. We have now 27: 0 ' .muskets, and not so many sick as the same o 'l' 4 would have in Ireland—p,rovisions in the -gt ,3l 7 e . plenty, and quarters good. The ene m y i b e .nsei' i; , are far from expeeting'a bloodless or easy con V o l,„ this we know to a certainty, and that the (- 3 ' ci ec i manders have paused, and more than once al' i c i r el their plans. We have, for the first time, exc e ":„ ; information, and, as it is believed, communie-d'y from ()Ulcers of rank in the French army." Saturday %!2s men, invalided 'from dtifereut ments in Portugal, lauded at Portsmouth. In consequence o f the :uncle - occasioned 11 ell' heavy rain which fell on Sonday the .sth, the at Woodburn, near Carrickfergus, sa eiled so 'and so suddenly, that the rapidity ,of swept away several cows and one hots,e,'!?ehjager'e to a farmer in , that' tieiglihourilorl, which, 010 drowned ;it carried a small him.e., ,jl4 • furnitute, the family ri , _aping with; their lives. Yesterday two cl er k s in th Baitlt of Enalloc' erd apprehended for forging a worrani to receive a I' r dent for ?,80.01".• 2.1 t: crime was coiiiinitted two years ago, and tins discovered in cfrnsequetv-:',., a drunken quarrel between one 'of th e G c rtis man living at Islin g ton, who' was privy to lence• The tmtn, it seems lodged an inforM 3 "` l , against the two taken into ensiony, and is to b° evidence in the prus.:eutiun. Tb two Clerk s lit )t hers. 'l l lc York 'Assizes commenced in that ci,tY 't ilf rt Wed!ws , lay List, whe i n foiir'prisoners wen.: colfi• l ', convicied, z. Tkoazav Cheesburough, lot hot s ... e , steAng ; 4ilveiter, _ for house-bre;d 0) :1 Francis Hardeas4le; forijrivat'ely.stealing; and Atkinson, for stealing cjttle, Sever4l ed to be trivci. • Al 131 i `!,;:a o,ieri ki t h qifo, P i e tp rt) I hos .ti'r, ion r)ow 1, 1 Iv o\ 1 11 rt POs( II tiy rs.;l f)•' Itoti 2011 ..,), and Per : g t:r l'il t t''cl, itfir h ‘;'11( re ' r tr),. ri ot of t Ber kOll the $ ( 101 4 , gt Iqd ~~ ,o c ~~w ; 14 I( ;II ti t .4111, I'lll